I am writing this about the possible US casualties if the US attacks Iran. The key to everything is supply, and here, geography is not our friend.
American forces consume a tremendous amount of fuel, food and ammunition, plus a lot of other stuff. This route of supply is essential to the American fighting […]

Moves to remove Admiral Fallon from CENTCOM are now becoming clear. I am sure that the Neocons are quite upset that the Admiral helped derail their plans to initiate war with Iran. After reading this, it looks like the next game plan is to discredit the Admiral, replace him with General Petraeus, stop […]

One of the unintended but foreseeable consequences of Edwards dropping out of the race was that 74 year-old Ralph Nader would think about getting back in the fray. He claimed that Edwards had the right message about “corporate greed” and that he was satisfied that some of his issues were being addressed. If Edwards had […]

I was munching on a Big Mac at a Wal-Mart in Rohnert Park, CA, some 50 miles north of San Francisco this afternoon and looked up to note a menu of health care services on a shingle a few feet from the Mickey D.  Wal-Mart, which already offers $3 monthly rxs on generic drugs, posts disclaimers […]

I am weary of chickens:
no one knows what they are thinking,
and they look at us with dry eyes
and consider us unimportant…
Courtesy Pablo Neruda, Chilean Nobel Prize Winner for Literature

There is now less than a year left before the national election. What is to come next will hopefully be very different. And one thing that we can all agree on is that the Bush years have been a disaster for the image of America around the world.
So what to do? What […]

In a previous post, we discussed my ideas of approaches to combating terrorism. Here is a text book case on how NOT to do it. Some “expert” came up with the idea that 5% to 10% of the Moslem population in the United States must be a terrorist. So the FBI has […]

You heard it first right here. McCain wins. By more than 5 points. Here’s why:
McCain is cagey. Liberal, moderate, independent, wing nut. He’s all those things depending on the issue, which is how a large number of Americans see themselves. He gives movement conservatives like Rush Limbaugh fits because […]

Tonight his presidential obituary will be written. Let it be so. But how he finished tonight in the Florida primary is not how he will be remembered. On 9/11 Rudy, with all his faults, was the right man, in the right place, at the right time. It is moot that someone else would have done […]

John Edwards claims he can continue to come in third and get enough delegates so that someone notices him at the convention. I’m not so sure. There comes a point when third becomes last and last becomes an irritant. If I were Obama, I would be cutting a deal with him now for his support.
But […]